Americas and Caribbean

Germany and Brazil have a long history of partnering on environmental protection. But President Jair Bolsonaro’s stances on Brazil’s indigenous people and their lands threaten the progress that has been made. “Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio...

A US federal judge has ruled pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation must face a $1 billion lawsuit over their roles in a 1940s medical experiment that saw hundreds of Guatemalans...

Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence — who make up most of the participants of a “caravan” estimated at between 7,000 and 8,000 people — are slowly moving through Mexico in the hope of reaching the United...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford insists that the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan is showing results, but one reporter said Dunford’s remarks don’t pass the smell test. The tense exchange came while...

After years of political wrangling, regulatory delay, and economic uncertainty. California’s $100-billion high-speed rail (HSR) project is finally under construction. Though the project has more than doubled in cost and is now over 11 years behind...

Cuba will officially recognize private property under a new constitution that also creates the position of prime minister alongside the president, state media reported on Saturday. Cuba’s current constitution only recognizes state, cooperative, farmer, personal and...

California has been at the epicenter of actual reform in America’s criminal justice system. In just a few years, the state has passed a series of legislative bills and ballot measures intended to reduce its massive...

The word ‘asesino’ (murderer) is painted over a mural of Daniel Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua. Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP There was a time, in the 1980s, when Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front,...